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Tribal Government & News Grand Ronde Tribal Police Log -- March 4 - 24, 2021 03.31.2021 Dean Rhodes Public safety Thursday, March 4 DUII arrest occurred in the area of milepost 26 on Highway 18. Citizen contact occurred in the 48700 block of Eagle Loop. Suspicious vehicle reported in the 9600 block of Hebo Road. Warrant arrest occurred in the area of milepost 21 on Highway 18. Theft reported in the 26800 block of Salmon River Highway. Assist outside agency in the area of milepost 24 on Highway …

is also a former director of the Community Fund, thanked attendees for attending the in-person event. “I just want to celebrate your hard work and thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” Cherry said. During the past 26 years, the Community Fund has awarded 3,222 grants totaling more than $94.4 million. Tuomi also attended the check presentation. Includes information from Smoke Signals Editor Dean Rhodes. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper …

Highway. Warrant service occurred in the 27100 block of Salmon River Highway. A death investigation occurred in the 27100 block of Salmon River Highway. Officers assisted an outside agency on an emotionally disturbed person in the 7700 block of Birch Street. Tuesday, Dec. 26 Warrant service occurred in the area of South Street. Officers assisted an outside agency on a disturbance call in the 100 block of Main Street. A hazard was reported in the area of milepost 23 on Highway 18. A hazard …

to office hours throughout November and December. Comparatively, the November 2022 constitutional amendment election to limit disenrollment began with a Facebook Live educational meeting on Sept. 21, two election process meetings Sept. 27 and Sept 29; and educational meetings Oct. 13 in Portland, Oct. 18 and Oct. 26 in Tribal Council Chambers/Zoom, and Oct. 20 in Salem. The Election Board is holding office hours for the upcoming constitutional amendment election from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday …

Culture MMIP walk honors missing and murdered 09.11.2025 Nicole Montesano Murdered and Missing Indigenous People Riley Freeman, 13, left, and Tribal member Fabian Quenelle participate in Ampkwa Advocacy’s 2025 Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk at Riverview Park in Independence Saturday, Aug. 30. (Photo by Michelle Alaimo) By Nicole Montesano Smoke Signals staff writer It has been 26 years since Leona LeClair Kinsey (Puyallup) of La Grande, Oregon, joined the legions …

and Lands Director Jan Reibach, Social Services Department Manager Dana Ainam. 29 years : Ceded Lands Program Manager Michael Karnosh 28 years : Restorative Assistant Donnette Spaulding, Police Records Evidence Technician Egypt Leno, Cultural Center Supervisor Crystal Szczepanski, Judicial Operations Supervisor Julie Boekhoff. 27 years : Employment Specialist Tauni Tollas. 26 years : Procurement Department Manager Nathan Rolston. 24 years : Housing Improvement Coordinator Donald Coon. 22 years …

Culture Yesteryears -- Sept. 1, 2011 08.31.2011 Ron Karten History 2006 - Nysayka Ikanum -- Our Story, an ongoing virtual experience of the Tribe's Cultural Resources Department debuted online on the Tribe's Web site. Created by Portland-based ISITE Design, sections cover the Tribe's past, present and future with hundreds of Web pages. "Nothing will ever be taken down," said then-Cultural Collections Coordinator Lindy Trolan. "It will only be added to." 2001 - Tribal members Cristina Lara …

more than 200 miles over 12 days. 2000 – Tribal Elder Grace Engelhardt cut the ribbon officially opening the new Elders’ housing development. The 38-unit development was funded through three Housing and Urban Development grants and additional funding came from Tribal Council. 1995 – A special section, “Grand Ronde Site Planning Project,” was published. Its purpose was to develop a site use plan for Tribal lands and a generalized land use compatibility plan for the associated areas in the Grand …

Tribal Government & News Tribe to sell former Multnomah Greyhound Park site in Wood Village 08.28.2018 Dean Rhodes Tribal Council By Dean Rhodes and Danielle Frost Smoke Signals staff members WOOD VILLAGE -- The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde announced on Tuesday, Aug. 28, that it will not develop the 31 acres that were home to Multnomah Greyhound Park after two and a half years of Tribal ownership, and that the Tribe will put the property on the market in the hopes of making a profit …

Tribal Government & News Greyhound Park grandstand demolished 08.12.2016 Dean Rhodes Events WOOD VILLAGE -- A little more than a month after the Grand Ronde Tribe held a demolition ceremony at the site of the former Multnomah Greyhound Park in east Multnomah County, the iconic glass-enclosed grandstand is no more. Demolition crews from Konell Construction & Demolition Corp. used several cherry pickers and excavators to pull down the 95-foot-tall structure on Tuesday, Aug. 2. Those who could …